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Zaryanko, Sergey (Konstantinovich)
(b Lyady, Mogilevsk province [now Vitebsk region], Belarus’, 6 Oct 1818; d Moscow, 1 Jan 1871). Russian painter of Belarusian birth. He bought himself out of serfdom in the mid-1820s and went with his family to St Petersburg. Zaryanko first studied painting with Vasily Mikhaylovich Avrorin (1805–55), a pupil of Aleksey Venetsianov, and soon attracted the interest of Venetsianov himself, who in 1834 sent Zaryanko to the St Petersburg Academy of Arts. Along with other pupils of Venetsianov, Zaryanko painted interiors of the Winter Palace, such as View of the Field-Marshal Hall in the Winter Palace (1836) and View of the Throne Room (1838; both St Petersburg, Hermitage). He first attracted popular acclaim for his group portrait View of the Hall in the Law School with Groups of Teachers and Pupils (1840–41; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.), as notable for its treatment of light and perspective in the interior as for the individual characterization of the figures gathered there. With his painting of 1843, View of the Interior of the Naval Cathedral of St Nicholas (St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.), his series of interior scenes came to an end.
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